My husband and I are in the early stages of planning a trip to the Czech Republic, Hungary and possibly Berlin. Can anyone suggest any gardens I should visit? Like most NARGS members I'm pretty much a plantaholic so perennial gardens and woodland gardens are also fair game. I'm not much of a tree person so I don't have much interest in arboretums unless they have a lot of interesting understory plants. My husband isn't much interested in gardening so I probably won't be able to devote more than a couple of days to garden visits I'd like to make them really count. This trip is planned for early June. I will be cross posting this message on the NARGS forum.

You will get lots of good advice about gardens, both private and botanical ones, so I will just mention an area where we spent several weeks in the latter part of May this spring.

We stayed in Mikulov, in the south of the Czech Republic, very close to the Austrian border. Every day we took a bus to a different area and walked a lot - to stately homes and gardens, nature reserves with lots of birds and wildflowers, and interesting village front gardens.

about Hungary you can write me a message. The gardens are so much different here. I will think it over - would be happy to quide you - I am sure, can make some interesting activityI suggest the Festetich mansion's garden in Keszthely http://arykana.lapunk.hu/?modul=galeria&a=99280